Condenser.



W. SGHWANHAUSSER. OONDENSE'R. Arpmxnox num oai'. a1, 190s..

- Patented June 7, 1910.

UNITED sTxTi-isJ PATENT ernten. V

'WILLIAM SCHWANHAUSSER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 HENRY R. WORTH- INGTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.,

CONDENSER.

Application filed October denser for condensing exhaust steam ot' steam engines or the like, the especial object of the invention being to provide a condenser of simple and compact construction which shall secure a more elicient action than previous condensers ot' this class, especially as to the admission and distribution ot the exhaust steam and the discharge of water from the condenser.

For a full understanding of the invention, a detailed description of a condenser embodying all the features of the same in their preferred form will now vbe given in connection with the accompanying drawing forming a partei' this specification, and the features forming theinvention then specically pointed out in the claims.

In the drawing, which shows the condenser in vertical section, with the exhaust pipe and the tail pipe broken away to shorten the drawing, the lcondenser proper is shown as similar to the counter current condenser of United States Letters Patent No. 899,063, dated September 22nd,*1908j" and having the condenser shell A with the injection or condensing water inlet D at the top of the condenser, the series of outer and inner trays E, F provided with the jet openingsv l0, the air cooler or supplementary chamber I in the upper part of the condenser, the drain pipe 13 extending downward centrally from the chamber I and water scaled at its lower end by Water vessel 'l/t, and the air pipe li through which the,

air is drawn olf b y the dry air vacuum pump, as in said Letters Patent.

ltel'erring now to the parts to which the presentl invention especially relates, theI cxn haust steam pipe ,l extends upward from the l'oot ot the tail pipe (l, inclosing the latter, and at the lop opens directly into the condenser proper directly below the bottom Specification of Letters'Patent.

Patented June 7, 1910.

serial No. 460,409.

tray F, which is preferably formed inclined inward and downward, as shown, so as to better direct the steam outward through the water jets. This admission of the steam from the open top of the large exhaust pipe secures va free admission and ellicient distribution of the steam throughout the lower chamberl of the condenser. The tail pipe C extends upward from the usual hotI well L, upon which the exhaust steam pipe elbowV preferably is mounted, and forms the support for the condenser, and at the top this tail pipe terminates in a chamber l5, which is closed at the top, except for the connection 'of the drain pi 13, the water sealed lower end of the drain pipe` 13 being within the` chamber 15. On the side of this chamber connects also a passage lG, through which the discharge water from the condenser tlows to the tail pipe fro1n-the chamber l? formed in the lower section of the condenser about the exhaust pipe B, the jets l0 of the lower. tray F being formed so as to discharge outward into this chamber and avoid danger of the water being thrown into the exhaust pipe.- The tail pipe C passes into the hot well'through a joint permitting movement ot' the tail pipe to provide for expansion, this joint being pac ted as shown or otherwise made air tight to prevent leakage oit the air from the hot well to the condenser.

It will be understood that the invention is not limited to a counter `current condenser of the special form shown, nor to the 'details ot? the exhaust pipe and tail pipe vconstruction shown` but that the form of the condenser may be Varied and modifications matle in the exhaust and tail pipe connections while retaining the invention as delined by the claims.

What i claim is l.' In a counter current condenser, the.

a vertical exhauststeam pipe inclosing the tail pipe and open at' the top to deliver steam below the bottomtray. v

3. In a counter current condenser, the combination of a condensing chamberhaving a Water inlet above the chamber, a series of trays forming Water jets through which the steam passes, a tail pipe, an air cooler in the upper part of the condenserT a drain pipe extending down from said cooler and discharging into 'said tail pipe, and a vertical exhaust steam pipe inclosing the taiil pipe and openat the top to deliver steam below the bottom traly.

4. In a, 1counter current condenser, the

combination of the icondensing chamber having e water inet above the-chamber, a series of inner and outer' trays E, F, the bottoml tray being central of the condenser` and arranged to throw the'water outward, verticall exhaust steam pipe B open at the top tov de'- iver steam against the bottom tray Within pipe.

the jets,V teil4-pipe C inclosed by the enhaust steam pipe and closedat its upper end, and

' Water receptacle 17 surrounding the steam pipe andconnected by passage 16 to the tail A counter current condenser having 'its condenslng chamber` enlargedv at its lower ort1on, a stiar'ninlet pipe opel'hng upward into the hottoln'of the enlargedlportion of' -the condensing chamber, a tnii pipe within the steam ppe,-and an open top receiver for the discharge water Within the' enlarged lower portion of the condensing chamber P with which the tail pipe connects. y

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto Setx my hand, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLI-AM soHWANHAUssER. f

Witnesses v CHARLES WILSON, FRANLD. SHUMA'rz. 

